Exploring Grammar in Writing

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This book contains varied practice activities and a wide range of formal and informal text-types for upper-intermediate to advanced students. Exploring Grammar in Writing develops students' understanding of how genre, context and purpose affect grammatical choices in writing. The book provides 20 units of clear explanations, lively grammar practice exercises and writing tasks. Each unit focuses on a different area of writing and its typical language features. Using real written examples from the Cambridge International Corpus, Exploring Grammar in Writing helps learners improve both their grammatical awareness and their writing skills. This edition, with answers, is ideal for self-study.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Contents
• Acknowledgements (p. v)
• Introduction (p. vii)
• Part 1 Writing for different readers (p. 1)
• Everyday notes (p. 3)
• Shortening the message by using ellipsis
• Common abbreviations and when to use them (p. 2)
• Greetings Cards (p. 9)
• Conventional expressions used for different occasions
• Varying the warmth and formality of the message (p. 3)
• Formal letters and e-mails (p. 15)
• Expressing requests for action and making suggestions
• Combining modals and conditionals to make requests (p. 4)
• Policies and agreements (p. 21)
• Modals and semi-modals of obligation
• Formal versus informal language choices
• Part 2 Building noun phrases (p. 5)
• Business letters (p. 29)
• Patterns of noun phrases
• Writing opening statements (p. 6)
• Hobby books (p. 35)
• Using articles with countable and uncountable nouns
• Degree adverbs (p. 7)
• Informal letters and e-mails (p. 41)
• Using articles to show shared knowledge
• Handling vague language (p. 8)
• Catalogues (p. 47)
• Building noun phrases using for and with
• Adjectives which take prepositions (p. 9)
• Technical manuals (p. 53)
• Nouns pre-modified by other nouns
• Prepositions used to express precise actions
• Part 3 Adding more information to the sentence (p. 10)
• Encyclopaedias (p. 61)
• Defining and non-defining relative clauses
• Starting a relative clause with a preposition (p. 11)
• Blurbs (p. 67)
• Adding information at the start of a clause
• Variations in noun pre-modification (p. 12)
• Holiday brochures (p. 73)
• Expanding the sentence using co-ordination
• Handling adjective choices (p. 13)
• Travel guides (p. 79)
• Adding information to the noun by apposition
• Varying the style by moving appositional phrases (p. 14)
• Direct mail (p. 85)
• Adding comparative and superlative structures to the sentence
• Adjectives that do not normally take comparative or superlative forms
• Part 4 Sequencing and focusing (p. 15)
• Everyday instruction booklets (p. 93)
• Non-finite clauses: -ing and to ... Prepositions introducing -ing clauses (p. 16)
• Newspaper stories (p. 99)
• Handling and combining adverbs of time and place
• Adverb phrases starting with prepositions (p. 17)
• Packaging (p. 105)
• Various styles of instructions
• Reduced imperatives (p. 18)
• Advertisements (p. 111)
• Using adverbs for emphasis
• Using only for focus (p. 19)
• Essays (p. 117)
• Comparing approaches
• Making your own point and supporting it with references (p. 20)
• Feature articles (p. 123)
• Interesting the reader and changing the focus using it
• Adjectives and verbs commonly used in it clauses
• Key (p. 129)
• Glossary (p. 159)
• Index (p. 165)